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Domestic partners could share sick leave

The Palm Beach County School District could soon allow school district employees to share sick leave with their domestic partners if they also work for the district, a benefit that now only applies to married couples.

Under a proposed sick leave policy to be voted on later this month, employees can use their domestic partner’s sick leave if they have exhausted it.

“We want all family benefits available to cover all families and the school district has agreed this is the fair thing to do,” said Rand Hock, resident of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council.

The district has recognized domestic partners as family members since 2005 but it does not allow employees to purchase health insurance coverage for domestic partners’s children.

“The school board’s expanded definition of families gives us hope that it will soon allow district employees to purchase insurance for the children they are raising in their homes,” Hoch said.